I keep getting errors in my Gulp SASS setup due to the import stylesheet - sass

Question

Hi everybody I'm new to learning Gulp and I can't seem to get over this hurdle. I am trying to compile my sass and I will set it to gulp-watch. It will work fine for a little while, but then it will show an error- the file is not found or unreadable.It looks something like:
events.js:154
throw er;// Unhandled 'error' event
Error: app/scss/main.sass
Error: File to import not found or unreadable: layout1
Parent style sheet: stdin on line 2 of stdin
I have tried to look on this site for the solution to my problem and I thought putting the includePaths would work (maybe I'm doing it wrong) but I'm still getting errors. Could someone please help me out?Here are some images of my project. Here is a link to some pictures: http://imgur.com/a/pQBHV

Answer 1

Looks like there are a few issues:
1) You should probably use the scss extension with all your files and update the sass task in your gulp file to watch for changes like so: gulp.src('app/scss/*.scss') or since, in theory, all files contained in that folder should be sass, you could do this instead: gulp.src('app/scss/*') which will watch all the files in the directory.
2) There's also an issue with the names of your sass files. You need to prepend the files you wish to import with an underscore so the compiler knows these files are partials.
So your sass files should look like:
_layout1.scss
main.scss
_normalize.scss
_styles.scss
And import the partials in main.scss:
#import 'normalize';
#import 'layout1';
#import 'styles';
More info http://sass-lang.com/guide#topic-4